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As the Obama administration considers allowing offshore drilling in the Atlantic from Virginia to Florida, 75 marine scientists issued a letter of concern this week over the possible use of controversial seismic air guns to search for underwater oil and...

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council failed to take action Wednesday on a measure to protect deep-sea coral canyon ecosystems off the Atlantic coast from human activity, including Norfolk Canyon off Virginia.Council members meeting in Raleigh,...

The Obama administration's proposed five-year draft plan designating potential areas of the Outer Continental Shelf for future offshore oil and gas drilling includes a swath of the Atlantic stretching from Virginia to the Florida border.
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The Obama administration proposed new regulations Thursday designed to reduce the environmental impact of coal mining on the nation's streams, a long-anticipated move that met quick resistance from Republicans, even as the administration projected only...

WASHINGTON The Obama administration is imposing new measures designed to better protect streams from coal mining, a move the struggling industry calls a significant blow to jobs. The rule from the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement...

WASHINGTON The largest mammoths to roam the earth received some recognition Friday when President Barack Obama designated an excavation site and park in Waco, Texas, as a national monument. "This is one of the most incredible collections of...

Federal officials on Thursday announced a series of public meetings this summer on the U.S. government's coal program, following criticism that corporations have profited off publicly-owned reserves of the fuel at the expense of taxpayers. The Interior...

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has established a sister park relationship between Shenandoah National Park and a nature reserve in China. Jewell established the link between the popular Virginia attraction and the Baihuasan National Nature...

KING WILLIAM – The federal government has officially extended recognition to the Pamunkey Indian tribe, whose members have lived in King William County since the before European colonization.
It is the first Virginia tribe to achieve such recognition.
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The Washington Redskins' chances of returning to the nation's capital appeared to have been hindered by the Obama administration.
According to the Washington Post, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Bowser in...

Some Indian tribes may have a clearer path toward federal recognition under a new Obama administration rule that relaxes some requirements and speeds decision-making, potentially affecting hundreds of groups.
Federal acknowledgment means a tribe is...

Who would have thought a big hole would wow the kids? Of course, it's not just any hole. The Grand Canyon is perhaps the most spectacular hole anywhere. It's a mile deep with 10 miles separating the South Rim, where we were, from the North Rim. No...

After nearly 100 years, the National Park Service holds some of the country's most beautiful and historic places, though it also suffers from an $11 billion backlog of unfunded maintenance and a visitor base that's aging and mostly white. With its...

WASHINGTON — After nearly 100 years, the National Park Service holds some of the most beautiful and historic places in the country, though there's also an $11 billion backlog of unfunded maintenance and a visitor base that's aging and mostly white.
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Ten Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings, including the Robie House in Chicago and Unity Temple in Oak Park, will be nominated by the federal government Friday to a United Nations list of the world's most significant cultural and natural sites, a U.S....

President Obama proposed designating 1.4 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as protected wilderness, drawing cheers from environmentalists but setting off a bitter new battle Sunday with the Republican-controlled Congress over oil and...

WASHINGTON — In the largest settlement with a single American Indian tribe, the Obama administration will pay the Navajo Nation $554 million to settle claims that the U.S. government has mismanaged funds and natural resources on the Navajo reservation for...

WASHINGTON – Making official what many Democrats have expected for weeks, President Obama plans to nominate Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker, a longtime political supporter and heavyweight fundraiser, as his new Commerce secretary on Thursday...